Hanover Street | | Cast : | Harrison Ford, Lesley-Anne Down | | Director : | Peter Hyams | | Studio : | Columbia/Tristar Studios | | Format : | Color, Closed-captioned, Dolby, Widescreen | | Released Date : | January 01, 1979 | | DVD Released Date : | March 23, 2004 | | Language : | Unknown (Dubbed), English (Dubbed), French (Dubbed), English (Subtitled), Spanish (Subtitled), French (Subtitled), Spanish (Dubbed) | | Audience Rating : | PG (Parental Guidance Suggested) | | | BUY THIS DVD FROM AMAZON |
Customer Reviews
| Rating |  | | Date | July 19, 2005 | | Summary | Another great John Barry Score! | Content
 | I am not a bomber fan, nor a Ford fan. But I still rate this movie 5 stars because I am a JB fan. Since there is no full soundtrack of this JB's score available on CD, the only way to listen to its music is to watch this DVD. It was composed around the same time of Moonraker and before Somewhere in Time. Romantic lush strings combined classical Bond sound made the soundtrack worthy to be released or rerecorded. JB tends to reuse/recycle his material. We can hear a motif, Ford waiting his lover on Hanover street, reappeared in Dances with wolves and Swept from the sea. The film itself was not bad. Recommended!
Let's wait in patient. Hopefully, Nic Raine could give a hand as he did for Raise the Titanic, Robin and Marian, etc. |
| Rating | | | Date | December 07, 2004 | | Summary | Nice B-25 footage | Content
| Being a fan of the Mitchell bomber, Harrison, Leslie and Chris Plummer, I have to give it five stars.
It's also worth it for the somebody-marry-this-woman scene in which the young Resistance woman shoots one of the Nazi troopers who is trying to capture Ford and Plummer. Gotta love the Resistance.
On the whole, the other reviewers have pretty well nailed it. Not the greatest war movie ever made and weak in many areas, but it still manages to retain a charm of its own, and the scenes in wartime London in which the streets are full of men and women uniform, are very well put together.
It was a remarkable time, however dangerous and tragic, and watching the chemistry between Ford and Down, you can understand how the US troops who had been stationed in England took home 100,000 war brides.
Sweet movie, and well worth the price.
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| Rating | | | Date | September 06, 2004 | | Summary | Ah, young Harrison Ford...... | Content
| ...but that's the only reason to see this movie, just as Harrison Ford claims his only reason for making it was "because he'd never kissed a female human being on screen before." The romance is a bit unconvincing because Down is married and, however much they love each other, it's adultery, and hard to sympathize with them. Dialogue is flat and laughable at times, "Fred? I think I love you!" and the ending is, of course, less than satisfying. Ford is left to fight his war alone and doesn't get the girl. Still, Harrison is always worth looking at.... |
| Rating | | | Date | August 08, 2004 | | Summary | Too much love, not enough war | Content
| That sounds like a crass statement to make, to be sure, but in the case of HANOVER STREET, it is, unfortunately, true. The first 75 minutes is taken up with Harrison Ford as an American flyboy who falls in love with upper-crust British nurse Lesley-Anne Down, who happens to be married to poor Christopher Plummer. He seems to be a pretty good guy, but apparently isn't "exciting" enough for her, so she hops in the sack with Ford. The last 45 minutes is much better, as Ford and Plummer find themselves stuck behind enemy lines in Occupied France together, and must work together to get out. It's only here in which the film really picks up -- too bad the movie didn't focus on this aspect rather than the mush.
The DVD itself has a transfer that's been criticized a bit, but I didn't think it was too bad. David Watkin's cinematography comes out nicely, although there is a fair bit of haloing surrounding the light sources in indoor scenes. The audio nicely features John Barry's lush romantic score (really, the only good thing about the romantic part of the film).
The extras are few: an audio commentary by director Peter Hyams, which is listenable, but not essential, and three trailers. All in all, an average DVD presentation of an average film.
The film: 3 stars.
The extras: 3 stars. |
| Rating | | | Date | June 22, 2004 | | Summary | Shame no one knows it | Content
| Hanover Street is definitely one of Ford's finest movies ever! The movie is unfairly underrated and as a result very few have ever seen it. It's a shame too, this movie is fantastic!! I love, love, love it!! World War Two... Harrison Ford... Romance... what's not to love? |
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